The Lee’s Summit Police Department is requesting additional information related to the December shooting of Tierra Singleton.
Jackson County Sheriff’s officers are asking Lee's Summit residents for help finding an arsonist.
In the print edition of the Friday Jan. 2 Lee's Summit Journal, the Greenwood Year in Review headline should have read: City of Greenwood in and out of court, fires city administrator.
While there was plenty of news to report on in 2008, some items were just a little on the strange side. The Journal staff has gathered some of 2008’s weirdest events.
Lee’s Summit was bombarded with attention from candidates in the historic Nov. 5 election.
The city of Greenwood faced many challenges in 2008: a long-term lawsuit that saw the inside of many court rooms, a proposed boycott of local businesses, trouble within the Board of Alderman and the firing of its first city administrator.
Two years ago, Christian Country Music artist Steven Paul McCollum was driving from his parents’ home in Lee’s Summit to Nashville, when his life changed.
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